• underisk@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    I think that makes you a leftist who hasn’t yet realized that liberalism doesn’t want many of those things.

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      11 months ago

      Most Americans still don’t realize there’s a difference. I’ve been hoping the recent conflict in the Middle East would wake some people up to the major differences between libs and leftists - it sure did for me.

      Leftists are literally losing their job for not supporting Israel and yet liberals are still out here confused about what’s even going on.

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        11 months ago

        Liberals prefer negative peace - the absence of conflict - over positive justice.

        If you prefer positive justice, you aren’t a liberal.

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        11 months ago

        They care about them in a performative way. The minute it stands in their way or they can’t use it as a tool to get your support to gain or maintain power they will immediately drop the act. Before Oberfell even Obama wouldn’t give a clear statement of support for gay marriage because it was seen as political poison.

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          11 months ago

          They care about them in a performative way. The minute it stands in their way or they can’t use it as a tool to get your support to gain or maintain power they will immediately drop the act.

          Standing up for trans acceptance and rights is the right thing to do but it is by no means a winner of a political platform:

          The public is divided over the extent to which our society has accepted people who are transgender: 38% say society has gone too far in accepting them, while a roughly equal share (36%) say society hasn’t gone far enough. About one-in-four say things have been about right. Underscoring the public’s ambivalence around these issues, even among those who see at least some discrimination against trans people, a majority (54%) say society has either gone too far or been about right in terms of acceptance.
          https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2022/06/28/americans-complex-views-on-gender-identity-and-transgender-issues/

          Democrats haven’t dropped it yet, despite anti-trans sentiment being one of the Right’s favorite things to rally around.